Parallel Session 2 (5 June 1:30 – 2:30)

Name / University / Presentation Title
2A: Engineering
Chair: Prof Miklas Scholz, LT 1
Masrilayanti / Salford / Behaviour of integral bridges under horizontal and vertical earthquake ground motion
Tepondjou Nguedia Rosine Larissa / Salford / Deformation and shear strength of unsaturated soil under hydro-mechanical loading
Mohammed Hussaini / Salford / Transition of energy infrastructure to a low carbon system: the case of power sector in four different nations
2B: Business and Social Sciences
Chair: Ewa Duda-Mikulin, LT 4
Gregory Allen / UCLAN / A Postcolonial approach to cross cultural management: the representation of Poles by UK expatriate managers
Vaughn Graham / Birmingham / (Un) critically deconstructing the ownership narrative in sectoral development policymaking.
How ‘ownership’ legitimizes structure and inhibits change
Ade Kolade / UCLAN / The right side of history: a critique of New Labour’s embrace of capitalist realism
2C: Social Work and Environment
Chair: Denise Harris, LT 5
Julie Lawrence / Salford / Discuss the process of social interaction and participation between social workers and health professionals within a multi-disciplinary context
Gilda Nunez / Barcelona / Women and drug dealing: a comparative study
Meenu Sharma / Salford / Assessment of stress, depression and support mechanisms amongst undergraduate students in University of Salford
2D: Science
Chair: Dr James Christian, Seminar room 3
Christopher Bostock / Salford / Spontaneous spatial fractal light patterns in simple nonlinear cavities
Robert Cowey / Salford / Spatiotemporal dark and anti-dark solitons in cubic-quintic photonic systems
Mark Lundie / Salford / Graphene oxides as potential materials for next generation solar cells
2E: Built Environment
Chair: Gebril Elagili, LT 6
Baharin Mesir / Salford / Exploring the potential, usage and current research of Building Information Modelling in safety management
Anas Bataw / Manchester / Implementation of Building Information Modelling
Enoch Sackey / Loughborough / Transitioning to Building Information Modelling (BIM) capability: a Socio-Technical Systems (STS) perspective